ReptileGuy
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Steve is my Argentine Red/B&W hybrid tegu from Laura! He definitely isn't aggressive, but like all baby tegus is timid. Here are some pictures!
Bubblz Calhoun said:Congrats on the new tegu.
I could be wrong here but that first pic doesn't look like the same tegu as the others, the pattern doesn't add up.
Steven. said:Hey i have my own thread lol... Love the name
sent from my phone to your eyes
Bubblz Calhoun said:Congrats on the new tegu.
I could be wrong here but that first pic doesn't look like the same tegu as the others, the pattern doesn't add up.
laurarfl said:I know for a fact that is the same tegu. I didn't mess those photos up, lol!
ETA: He's a very distinctive tegu...small and very dark when hatched, black tongue. Their patterns change a bit from day 1 to a few months old. plus the patterns are different from one side of the head to other. The dark pigment went away and then red comes in.
Bubblz Calhoun said:Lol (reminiscing now),.. I picked her out of a bucket of tegus without even seeing her head and still recognized it when Txrepgirl got her. It's not just animals,.. there are other stories but I'm not getting into that.
TeguBuzz said:Very nice tegu Kian, I look forward to seeing his/her growth. Keep it up
ReptileGuy said:TeguBuzz said:Very nice tegu Kian, I look forward to seeing his/her growth. Keep it up
Will do did you ever get another tegu? R.I.P Sobek
TeguBuzz said:ReptileGuy said:TeguBuzz said:Very nice tegu Kian, I look forward to seeing his/her growth. Keep it up
Will do did you ever get another tegu? R.I.P Sobek
No, not yet. Haven't come across the right one you know? Hard to replace Sobek and all.
laurarfl said:lol, it could actually happen (mixing up photos) and it did happen once on this forum. See, I hate, hate hate taking photos. When I do take pictures, my camera is on a burst mode so that I can pick out a clear shot that I like. I also take them in quick succession, pick up one tegu, put it down, grab another. So in the end I have gobs of photos to sort through and I'm trying to match them up. Plus I'm over 40, so my eyesight is well...not like it was when I was 20, hehe.
However, I have never sent out the wrong tegu, because I am also OCD. I check the individual photo that goes to the buyer at least 5 times when I am packing. The photos and tegus are named for an obviously distinguishable feature and housed separately by various factors so they won't get mixed up. In this case, I was going back to match an old photo to the tegu Kian has.
OK, I went back and checked. It is the same tegu. I checked my FB because this tegu was originally being held for a friend. It was specifically being held because of the small size and dark color. It lightened up dramatically.
Look at this picture
http://www.tegutalk.com/attachment.php?aid=5166
Then this:
The three top spots really do change that quickly. there are top spots under the eye that are still there along with black lines along the jaw. And the infamous black tipped tongue. It is the only one with the black tongue.
I don't know how to make it bigger
laurarfl said:"As if it really matter."
I thought the same thing. It couldn't be the wrong tegu because it was the last tegu, lol. But I'm not posting any more photos, haha